

Energi Talks
Markham Hislop
Journalist Markham Hislop interviews leading energy experts from around the world about the energy transition and climate change.
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Nov 22, 2021 • 30min
Making sense of the electrification of transportation
Markham interviews Stacy Noblet, senior director, Transportation Electrification, for global consultancy ICF, about her recent blog post, “How electric vehicles can drive our clean transportation future.”

Nov 22, 2021 • 25min
COP26 post-mortem
Markham interviews Prof. Matthew Hoffmann, co-director of the environmental governance lab at the University of Toronto.

Nov 22, 2021 • 24min
China's energy crisis
Markham interviews Dr. Michal Meidan, director of the China Energy Programme at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and author of the paper “China’s power crisis: Long-term goals meet short-term realities.”

Sep 8, 2021 • 35min
Tony Seba rethinks climate change
Markham interviews Adam Dorr of RethinkX, an independent think tank co-founded by Tony Seba and James Arbib, about the new study, "Rethinking Climate Change."

Sep 8, 2021 • 26min
7 "feedback loops" speeding up the energy transition
Markham interviews Kingsmill Bond of Carbon Tracker about a new report, "Spiralling Disruption," which describes seven feedback loops that are driving disruption in the energy system.

Jul 16, 2021 • 44min
The future of BC Hydro and the BC electricity system
Markham interviews Dr. Mark Jaccard, professor and director of the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University and appointed to the 9-member expert committee that advised BC Hydro during the recent Phase 2 review.

Jul 2, 2021 • 22min
EV beats ICE hands down on carbon emissions, says GREET
Markham interviews Jarod Kelly, principal energy systems analyst at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, about GREET (Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions and Energy Use in Technologies) model that the Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board - and 43,000 other users - use to compare vehicle emissions in the United States.

Jun 21, 2021 • 30min
How will America retrofit its building stock to reach net-zero?
Markham interviews Andy Frank, an energy efficiency industry expert, president of Sealed, a retrofitting company based in New York, and a board member of Alliance for Clean Energy New York.

Jun 9, 2021 • 30min
New Alberta oil sands Net-zero by 2050 plan unpacked and explained
Markham interviews economist Kevin Birn of IHS MarkIt about the Oil Sands Pathways to Net Zero initiative launched on June 9.

Jun 7, 2021 • 33min
Hydro's main value is not electricity generation, but storage for renewables
Markham interviews Emil Dimanchev, PhD candidate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, about his co-authored paper, “The role of hydropower reservoirs in deep decarbonization policy,” recently published in the journal Science Direct.